Robert Devereux, third Earl of Essex

Standard Name: Essex, Robert Devereux,,, third Earl of

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Friends, Associates Emily Lawless
EL first met William Ewart Gladstone at a hotel in Cannes, where they had a rich two-hour conversation about Irish politics and her recent book With Essex in Ireland.
Sichel, Edith. “Emily Lawless”. Nineteenth Century, Vol.
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, pp. 80-100.
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Textual Production Emily Lawless
EL published her historical novel With Essex in Ireland, cast in the form of an actual archival narrative.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Emily Lawless
The subtitle gives the text the air of a historical account, dissimulating EL 's authorship: Being extracts from a diary kept in Ireland during the year 1599 by Mr. Henry Harvey, sometime secretary to Robert...
Textual Features Jean Plaidy
The Murder in the Tower takes up the interpretation of a major scandal of its day (still under debate by historians) in which Frances, Countess of Somerset , was represented as the quintessentially wicked woman...

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